Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Raleigh County (W.Va.) board of education upheld the right of a school principal to whip pupils who came to class smelling of ramp (wild onion...
...R.A.F. plane. There, at 10:05 a.m., he stepped into a naval launch and was sped out to the light cruiser Euryalus in the anchorage. On the dock, a bagpiper skirled the melancholy tune of The Minstrel Boy (". . . His father's sword he has girded on, and his wild harp slung behind...
...Wild Adventures." Abdullah's reins would likely pull him up short of that grand design. But few supposed that he would peaceably give up the Arab parts of Palestine. That might, indeed, fit British hopes for the Middle East: they need a secure corridor from the Mediterranean (probable outlet: Gaza) through friendly Hashimite kingdoms to the oil and bases of Iraq. As long as they hold Abdullah's purse strings, they will try to hold Abdullah to this more modest plan. Said a British official in Amman last week: "The Legion will be very prudent. We want...
Also Kenneth B. Murdock, Benjamin D. Paul, Ralph Barton Porry, Edward M. Purcell, Gaetano Salvemini, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Harlow Shapley, M. Brewster Smith, Pitirim A. Sorokin, O. H. Taylor, Robert Ulich, Karl Vietor, Andrews Wanning, John D. Wild, and Donald C. Williams
...Especially harmful are the so-called 'wild' jazz bands, consisting of a piano, violin, accordion and drum . . . Instead of the popular Soviet songs . . . they reproduce melodies filled with tavern melancholy and alien to the Soviet people...